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Plane-a-Day with Ordnance Vis Weps Fun in the Good Old Days I stole this one from the Swordsmen website. I don’t think Steve Beals will mind. Seeing as how I am on the Muster List. There are twenty-eight of those 500 pound Mk. 82 General Purpose Bombs coming off that Mighty A-6E TRAM. It had stations for thirty but the forward main gear doors would have to be taken off. But at Fallon, it was visweps as the caption indicates, visual weapons. Bomb sight and the Mark 1 eyeball. It was when that fancy, and high tech TRAM system was not used. And just for Buck. Ain’t ever going to see a Hornette do that! Couldn’t do it on a bet. It can do the other thing we did though. Buddy Store on the center-line and four drop tanks and…………instant tanker. We had 4 or 5 KA-6Ds on the inventory, rebuilt A models with a hose reel package and five drop tanks. The guy to ask about this is Pinch Paisley, fighter guy extraordinaire. There was a time that the venerable Intruder was more important as a tanker than a bomber. And being in Black and White gives it an…..almost………..sinister quality. Ain’t it purty!?!?!?!?!?! Grumman guys. We’re like that.  9 comments to Plane-a-Day with Ordnance |
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Karla like Big Boom…
The A-6 is nice… and that’s quite the photo. But… if’n ya want some SERIOUS urban renewal you put in a call for one of these.
How did they all fit in there? Holy mud!
Yes Big Boom!
A B-52 can’t get off a carrier deck and is the only airplane that had a bigger bomb load than the Intruder.
The all hang on the outside on Multiple Ejector Racks. Inboard wings with five each and the other three stations with six.
Great pic with a seriously cool airplane there, Glenn
I seem to recall that the Intruder was one of the last military aircraft powered by pure turbojet engines and that they were LOUD!!!
And those curved tailpipes add to it!
Sorry I missed getting the picture, but the camera was in my pocket today when a four ship of EA-6Bs landed at Nellis while I was there. Cool stuff
Loud pipes save lives!
And isn’t it funny how that works for motorcycles and Intruders
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